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Once a solution to a problem has been found, the biggest challenge is to get others to accept it. Often there’s quite a bit of selling and convincing that has to be done, but why force it? Is it possible to innovate without selling change?

Consider the notion of “Desire Lines”. Originally described by Gaston Bachelard in his 1958 book, The Poetics of Space, a desire line is… Continue

Innovation doesn’t come for nothing.
Innovation requires that something is given up in return. There’s always some kind of trade-off; resources, a process, a job, a machine or even an identity has to be abandoned in order to make room for innovation. The old way of doing things has to be left behind, or at the very least, re-contextualized.

If someone were to innovate the English language too much… Continue

Innovation often happens in companies despite their best efforts, not because of it.

The inherent problem of innovation is that it requires a low level of respect for orthodoxy, institutions, organizations and customs. In order to imagine, develop and sell something new, one has to assume that the old way is not necessarily the only or best way to do something. The threat innovation presents to the ex… Continue

Here we are again - another recession, another restructuring of the commercial real estate industry - another time when all of us have to get creative, have to change our business models, have to find another way to make money.

So how do we do it? And is past experience with the RTC days of the nineties a good thing as we look at the problems of today, or does it get in the way? At… Continue